It is a conversational tool that can generate decent code if properly prompted but it lacks for the most part enough context. For it to be really useful it has to be able to be trained on my entire project that I'm working with, not just a single file or function.
What I miss is the ability to "chat with my project". I.e. have the whole project in the trained context, and then reason about architectural changes, pros and cons, have suggestions for refactoring, help with complex renaming schemes and moving code, etc.
It would be super interesting to be able to give instructions like:
- Organise my files by dependency and the logic they implement.
- Or something like, create web components from common input elements in my html pages.
- Where is the user auth code implemented?
Things like that.
To add to all great comments here I have one that I’ve used for ages and not seen mentioned here: lftp
It supports many protocols for ftp like over ssh and allows for shaky connections with resume and back in the days when this was more common I used to just run it in the background to download huge files that took days to download and it would gracefully just reconnect/resume/retry until done.